Week 2 NFL schedule - Sunday, September 17, 2023

THE EARLY GAMES
Baltimore Ravens vs. Cincinnati Bengals: 1:00 p.m. ET, CBS
Green Bay Packers vs. Atlanta Falcons: 1:00 p.m. ET, FOX
Las Vegas Raiders vs. Buffalo Bills: 1:00 p.m. ET, CBS
Seattle Seahawks vs. Detroit Lions: 1:00 p.m. ET, FOX
Indianapolis Colts vs. Houston Texans: 1:00 p.m. ET, FOX
Kansas City Chiefs vs. Jacksonville Jaguars: 1:00 p.m. ET, CBS
Chicago Bears vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 1:00 p.m. ET, FOX
Los Angeles Chargers vs. Tennessee Titans: 1:00 p.m. ET, CBS

THE LATE GAMES
New York Giants vs. Arizona Cardinals: 4:05, FOX
San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams: 4:05, FOX
New York Jets vs. Dallas Cowboys: 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS
Washington Commodes vs. Denver Broncos: 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS

SNF
Miami Dolphins vs. New England Patriots: 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC

Monday, September 18

MNF
New Orleans Saints vs. Carolina Panthers: 7:15 p.m. ET, ESPN
Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers: 8:15 p.m. ET, ABC

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ALREADY PLAYED

Thursday, September 14

Minnesota Vikings vs. Philadelphia Eagles: 8:15 p.m. ET, Prime Video

Sunday September 17, 2023
San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams: 4:05pm ET, FOX

Game Day Thread

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Go Rams!

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Is he out for Sunday? Read that he has some kind of illness?

Gameday menu! What's cookin in your kitchen this weekend?

I usually try to match food with the opponent we are matched up against. Last week was the hot dogs with cream cheese and grilled onions and I gotta say they were pretty good. During the game my wife got such a craving for seafood she ended up doing a crab boil as well.

This week what I have written on my menu doesn't really relate with the niners in any way that I can think of. . .

But at my house we are planning to have Chicken N Waffles.

What are all your plans!?

Meaning it was about establishing Goff as the QB. Winning a SB. Getting Stafford. It was never about beating the 9ers.
Now it is.
I feel strongly that the Rams are about to open up a can of 49er WHOOPASS.
Just my opinion. Strap in fellas.

I love these guys. Also love KWill. Also love this team so darn much...

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It already is time for the Faithful to head to their southern California “home-away-from-home,” and as usual, the stands will be full of red when the 49ers face the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.

Per ticket marketplace Vivid Seats’ Fan Forecast, at least 64 percent of the crowd will be wearing 49ers' red and gold Sunday, leaving only 36 percent wearing the Rams’ blue and yellow. Of course this comes as no surprise to reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year Nick Bosa, who also was pleased to see the amount of Faithful in Pittsburgh in Week 1.


“It’s great,” Bosa said Wednesday. “I think we have the best-traveling fan base overall. Pittsburgh was impressive and I think we’ll take over L.A."

The 49ers also will wear their home red jerseys this weekend, making the atmosphere feel even more like a Levi's Stadium game.


A Vivid Seats spokesperson said that a proprietary algorithm that uses more than geography to predict fan affiliation believes that there is a large faction of 49ers fans living in southern California. Of course, this is standard operating procedure for the Faithful at all away venues.

The Los Angeles takeover is nothing new to either team as the SoFi stands have been predominantly red when the 49ers travel south since the stadium opened in 2020. Not only is this fun for 49ers fans, but it also gives San Francisco's defense an assist forcing Matthew Stafford and the Rams offense to use a silent count as a result of the noise.

This showing of 49ers fans in Los Angeles will rival the 65 percent that were in attendance for the 2021 NFC Championship Game, and is more than the 60 percent that showed up for their Week 18 contest just a few weeks before the conference title game.

Let’s pray it’s nothing serious. My god.

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I look at Sunday's game as a learning opportunity. Yes, I still hate the Niners with the burning fire of a thousand suns, but like many others here I feel that this game is the ultimate test for this team in all phases,

First of all, our team is young and hungry. They don't know to believe the talking heads that they are supposed to suck. They plain outphysicaled (prolly not a word) the SeaChickens. IF the Rams win this Sunday, the speculation will be wild as to how good the Rams can be by the professional media. Get ready for Sean and Les being called savants again. The media will be pissed that our team not only "bought" a Super Bowl but then we didn't have the decency to suck for a decade after the remodel.

If our Oline can hold back that ferocious Niner 4 man defensive front for 2-3 seconds, Matthew Stafford swill carve these bitches up. Not in the short game, but in longer developing routes. I liked what I saw from Tutu and he seems to be ready to tear the top off a defense (even the Niners), I think it was Jourdan that pointed out that he is jogging in motion before the snap of the ball, allowing him to cross the LOS at top speed. If he can get by the LOS without getting bumped/hit, the lil' dude will get behind these bastids and then watch for that beautiful Stafford pass over the top. I think Puka will play his role, but the Niners will try to shut him down like they did Kupp in past games. Benny Skow and Higbeast will catch balls over the middle to extend drives. Occasionally, Williams will have a good gain on the ground, but the Niners are good enough to stop our running attack, cold. The offense begins and ends with what the big uglies can do up front and I believe they will do well. maybe not as well as against the Hawks, but they are not finesse at all and the Niners have not faced a recent Rams team that can smack folks in the mouth (Oline).

Our No Name Defense played well. Our secondary played surprisingly well. Ernest Jones is a monster in the middle. John Johnson didn't even play on Sunday and he has been pretty physical with Kittle in past years. Sure, we need another Edge DE as has been discussed ad nauseum and a midseason acquisition is in the cards, depending how well the season goes. Our guys are playing with their hair on fire and that counts for a lot. As Coach Raheem says, "McCaffrey has been a pain in my ass," explaining that McCaffrey has harassed him in the NFC South and now in the West. As AD says, it's time to "Bow Up," This is our Aaron Rodgers heel, stopping him and the weapons they have.

I believe we can win and may call a win, outright. But what's more important is that it's a quality effort, win or lose. Make them feel the pressure of what youth and physicality will mean for them. Make Brock Purdy exclaim, "Oh Aaron!
Time to kick ass!

After week 1, fans and commentators often repeat the mantra, "it's only one game."

After week 2, though, a pair of losses should elicit a different reaction. Since 1990, 270 teams have started 0-2. Of them, only 31 (11.5%) have made the playoffs.

In the NFC, there are three teams that made the playoffs in 2022 who started 0-1: Seattle, Minnesota and the New York Giants. Two of the three have a strong likelihood of dropping to 0-2, as the Vikings play tonight at Philadelphia, and Seahawks go to Detroit to play the upstart Lions in their home opener (the Giants, by contrast, will be favored at Arizona).

An 0-2 start for the Vikings and Seahawks could not only be a bad harbinger for them, it also could help pave the way for the Rams to get a playoff spot.

On average, half the teams who make the playoffs in a given year fail to return the next year.

The risers and fallers could start to emerge as early as this week.

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These two seem like intelligent guys with great confidence in front of the cameras.

Twitter links first

I am hoping he can change that , but to this point I have seen little evidence that he
he can be a true wr2 behind Kupp. What troubles the most is his lack of aggressiveness
in attacking the ball in the air and his lack of positioning his body properly against
DB's on 50'/ 50 balls.

Huge sure TD drop shows how poorly he can position himself at times.
Not sure if Nacua is able to play Jeffersons position , but IMO,
When Kupp does return I am hoping to see Kupp, Nacua , Atwell starting.


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Thursday Night Football

When: Thursday, Sept. 14 at 8:15 p.m. EDT
Where: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA
TV: Nationally on Prime Video and locally on FOX (streaming with Sling TV)
Radio: 94WIP (Eagles) and KFAN 100.3FM (Vikings)

ROD Sportsbook:

She talked a bit about how well the Rams coaches had game planned for that Seahawks game. They had everyone on the team locked into it.

I’m glad to hear it. In the past it seemed that McVay had a bit of a ‘this is what we are, I dare you to beat me approach’. It lost them his first Super Bowl and he never really was willing to abandon his outside ZBS or his 11 personnel for several years. I hope that this is a sign of things to come.

She also said that they had the defense keyed into Geno’s calls and tendencies and they were able to exploit them. No more playing it safe on defense with the deep cushions, hoping not to let anything behind them? If so I am going to love this season, win or lose. It’s too frustrating to watch them give games away.

This was more enjoyable that I anticiapated. I am so impressed with DK here. Way more humble and dialed in than I gave him credit for. So proud of this guy after watching. Keep it up, ya badass.

PukaDoncic, haha... That will stick!!

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I watched the several plays on all 22 and this is a completely different defense. Pleasant has changed this defense as I hoped he would. No longer are the short zones left uncontested. With Pleasant everything is contested. I could see he's still learning who can do what but it worked. The coverage was tight for the most part. I think he was trying to use VanValkenburg and to a lesser extent Hoecht in WIL and SAM roles. IMO he's got the right concept just the wrong players.

I will give credit where it's due and there were some plays where Kendrick actually nailed the coverage. I think the problem right now is the safeties more than the CBs. Both Witherspoon and Kendrick played well on the outside. I think they really could have used Johnson back there instead of Yeast and Fuller. Fuller is a middle zone SS he struggles with his range when asked to play outside of his skillset. It's why I think by the end of the season it will be Lake playing that role. He's faster giving him better range. Too many times the safety was late, be it slow to read or lacking the range, either way Pleasant will have to clean it up.

The bottom line is that Aubrey's impact is all over this defense. He's got his secondary playing aggressively. As these guys get more experience the better they are going to be. By the end of the season this defense will be a strength not a weakness.

The front 6 needs to be simply played in a one gap penetration style. Do that and this will be a top 12 defense.

like at the movies , but at home

microwave popcorn doesn't come close

so the secret is ........................

well first , one of those stirring popcorn poppers , we use the West Bend Stir Crazy , but I'm sure most any stirring popcorn popper will work , there pretty much all the same , you probably could even just do it the old fashion way and make it over the stove

the secret is , the secret ingredients

butter flavored Coconut oil , and..........................Flavacol , it's like a yellow salt , it's what the movie theatres use

we always have to order them off of Amazon , because to stores around here don't sell them

The butter coconut oil comes as a solid , so put about two table spoon glops in the pooper and let it warm up and melt , then sprinkle about a tea spoon of Flavacol in the popper about the same time as the kernels

and enjoy , a little Flavacol goes a long ways , it's only takes a liitle , but you'll have to experiment to your liking

Not related to shoulder. Reason not disclosed.

Hope he is okay.

Check out what happened to these Packer Fans who basically celebrated A-a-ron going down Monday night and, almost worse, celebrated a Bills win before the game was actually over...

They drank like animals believing their bar tabs were going to be free with a Jets loss. LOL

Dumbass cheeseheads deserve this!

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford will be one of the featured stars in the second season of the hit Netflix docuseries “Quarterback”, according to a source in an exclusive report to me and Turf Show Times. The Super Bowl-winning quarterback of the L.A. Rams turned down Netflix and executive producers Peyton Manning and Keith Cossrow for the first season of the show, according to wife Kelly Stafford during a recent episode of her podcast “The Morning After”, but she added that he was open to doing the show depending on the outcome of season one and it appears that he was happy with what he saw.

One of the featured quarterbacks in the first season, Patrick Mahomes, was able to win MVP and the Super Bowl in 2022, so the show didn’t prove too much of a distraction for him.

The show originally aired on July 12th this year and featured Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota in season one. Since the end of the first season, which has been cited as one of Netflix’s biggest hits of 2023, many quarterbacks were rumored or confirmed to have turned down the show, including Stafford.​

But per my source with knowledge of the situation, the Rams QB will be featured in this upcoming season.


A person with knowledge of the situation informed me that Stafford is not only confirmed to be on it, NFL Network has been filming for it now for a week and Stafford was said to be mic’d up in his game against the Seahawks to open the season. It’s already been a storied offseason for Matthew Stafford, from trade rumors to learning how to connect with young teammates, so Netflix is getting its money’s worth from the jump.

Netflix’s “Quarterback” is a documentary developed by the NFL around the basis of a similar hit series, “Drive to Survive”, which showcased the Formula 1 racing circuit and generated plenty of popularity around the sport. It’s worth mentioning that the NFL has never allowed this level of access before and all three quarterbacks during last season wore a microphone in every single game they played, so the typically quiet and private Stafford will be allowing fans into parts of his life that we’ve never gotten to see.


With the Rams off to an impressive 1-0 start coming off a 30-13 win over the Seahawks, following Matthew Stafford for the 2023 season could be the perfect marriage between Netflix and an L.A. quarterback. Will Stafford’s Rams defy the odds and win the whole thing again? Whether the L.A. Rams pull off the improbable or not, fans will get an opportunity to watch the season unfold twice, including a side to the starting quarterback we’ve never seen before.

The Hollywood side.

Tyler Lockett catches a Yeast Infection!

Lockett moves downfield to try and throw a block as Yeast moves up for run support.

Lockett takes aim at Yeast.


Both getting in crash position.


WHAP!!!












Sanchez called it a "full helicopter."


Yeast admiring his work. Lockett would be led to the tent.

Dear AD
It's 49er week.
If all our excitement is misguided and doomed to be dashed against the cold hard rocks of reality - can that wait for at least one more week? please!!??

Also, I think you're going to have a huge day against the douchecanoes. I can feel 3 sacks + some highlight reel heroics incoming.... the league was too busy watching Stafford make them remember... but did they notice that you looked exactly like Aaron Donald, the guy who is the GOAT.
Personally, I can't wait for you to remind them.
ramen